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Core Faculty

Tiffany Judy

PhD, University of Florida

Linguistics Program Director,
Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene Hall 527
judyte@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Morpho-Syntax

Margaret Bender

PhD, University of Chicago

Professor of Anthropology
Piccolo 119
benderm@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology

Tina Boyer

PhD, University of California – Davis

Assistant Professor of German and Russian
Greene 337
boyertm@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, TESOL, Psycholinguistics

César Gutiérrez

PhD, Purdue University

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 238
gutiermc@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Historical Linguistics, Philology, Phonetics, Phonology, and Dialectology

Zak Lancaster

PhD, University of Michigan

Associate Professor of English
Tribble C215
lancasci@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Writing in the Disciplines, Academic Discourse Analysis, The Language of Stance and Evaluation, Educational Linguistics

Stéphanie Pellet

PhD, University of Texas – Austin

Associate Professor of French Studies
Greene 538
pelletsh@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Pragmatics, Foreign Language Pedagogy

Jon Smart

PhD, Northern Arizona University

Associate Teaching Professor of Writing
Tribble C113
smartjw@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Writing, Corpus Linguistics, TESOL

Affiliated Faculty

Irma Alarcón

PhD, Indiana University

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 519
alarcoi@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, TESOL, Psycholinguistics

Diego Burgos

PhD, Pompeu Frabra University

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 525
burgosda@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Computer-assisted Translation, Software Localization, Natural Language Processing

Sara Fernández Cuenca

PhD, University of Illinois

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Greene 547
fernans@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish in the United States, Psycholinguistics

Jerid Francom

PhD, University of Arizona

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 550
francojc@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Formal Syntax

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Stavroula Glezakos

PhD, University of California – Los Angeles

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Tribble B307
glezaksn@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics

Luis González

PhD, University of California – Davis

Professor of Spanish
Greene 534
gonzall@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Syntactic Theory and Spanish Applied Linguistics

Daniel Jung

PhD, Indiana University

Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Greene 517
jungd@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, L2 Pragmatics, and bilingualism

Lauren Miller

PhD, Purdue University

Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Greene 531
millerle@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Spanish in the United States, Heritage Languages and Speakers

Claudia Valdez

PhD, University of Arizona

Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish
Greene 535 A
valdezc@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Hispanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Spanish in Contact, Latino Immigration in the USA

Qiaona Yu

PhD, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture
Carswell 027
yuq@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Chinese as a second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, task-based language education, language for specific purposes

Emeritus Faculty

Billy Hamilton (in memoriam)

PhD, Yale University

Professor Emeritus of German and Russian

Heiko Wiggers (in memoriam)

PhD, University of Texas – Austin